What is "scrawny"

Usage examples of "scrawny".

The head of the scrawny old chicken stuck out through the macoute flap as she looked out upon the world with frighteningly intelligent eyes.

A number of scrawny mongrel dogs slunk about the place, nuzzling for scraps, occasionally bickering noisily among themselves.

He was making a long spring, his scrawny arms above his head forming an oval frame for his grinning monkeyish face.

He would have been truly apelike, Prew thought, had not the insignificance of his deepset eyes and his scrawny neck made him ineffectual as a monkey.

At the crucial moment I glanced within to observe my jacketless junior partner sprawled, tie undone, on his sofa beside a scrawny ruffian with a quiff of lime-green hair and attired for some reason in a skintight costume involving zebra stripes and many chains and zippers.

Where his younger brother had the big slab-sided Flanders-mare build of the old woman, who, though she was drowned in pale cool fat, still had the solid muscles given by a hundred years of buckling into the beetroot harvest under the skies of Artois, he had the loosely jointed clotheshorse look of the old man who, in his sleeveless vest and bib-and-brace salopette, had the scrawny neck of a plucked turkey and whose puckered blue jaw moved awkwardly and woodenly to and fro in an uncertain wobble the whole time, rather as though a wasp were buzzing about just at the back of his neck and he was trying to catch a glimpse of it, to know where to launch a smack from the desiccated forearm.

He cut two slim poles from a scrawny tree, pruned away the branches, and started to hack at the stems of scrubby gray-green plants growing low to the ground.

The Sheykh shook his head, shuddering from scrawny neck to slippered feet.

She was a scrawny red shorthorn with a woolly poll and she regarded me with a contemplative eye as I bent down.

The shote had long, doglike legs, a scrawny body, an inquisitive snout, and ears almost large enough to serve as wings.

Silvered rat skulls hung from her belt and swung in layers of necklaces around her scrawny neck Her streaky, snarly gray hair nearly hid her face when she swirled to a stop, her arms outflung in a dramatic pose.

The scrawny, grizzled old man behind the wheel shifted gears, slowing the springless truck more.

Eventually, we found a booth that had a few scrawny turkeys hanging from the ceiling by their heads.

She is a scrawny, underfed, unattractive spawn of mortal get, a killer of Stormwings.

In due course she found a gap in a scrawny hedge and was walking down an unweeded gravel drive towards the address on her book of matches.